Democrat Robert Byrd died after holding a senate seat since 1959. He was a ranking member of the KKK, made an on record comment about creating a ‘waterloo moment’ for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and he opposed and fillibustered the Civil Rights Bill, among other dispicable racists acts. President Obama said in a statement that the Senate “has lost a venerable institution and America | Read More »

Democrat Robert Byrd died after holding a senate seat since 1959. He was a ranking member of the KKK, made an on record comment about creating a ‘waterloo moment’ for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and he opposed and fillibustered the Civil Rights Bill, among other dispicable racists acts. President Obama said in a statement that the Senate “has lost a venerable institution and America | Read More »

I just watched Rand Paul on Rachel Maddow, I’m sorry to say that he has a firm grasp on the 3rd rail of Racial Politics and doesn’t seem to want to let go. This will be a HUGE issue in MSM over the next few days. While he says a lot of great things about abhorring discrimination and his support for anti-discriminatory laws for public | Read More »

Harry Reid has stirred up controversy with his recent comments likening opponents of the health care bill with those who obstructed civil rights and women’s rights legislation: Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, ‘slow down, stop everything, let’s start over.’ If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. When this country | Read More »

Michael Steele and the Republicans have a great opportunity that Harry Reid has handed them on a silver platter. The question is, do they have the moxie to take on the truth in Civil Rights history? Reid has had a case of de ja vu all over again. But, whether this American history class was an elective or requirement and he bailed for the semester, | Read More »

Sidenote: As I post this entry, I am watching a live stream of proceedings at Continental Congress 2009, currently in session in St. Charles, IL. I have not had the time to dutifully review the content which CC2009 has so far produced. It is my understanding there will be archive video of the entire conference and many documents coming out of the event to peruse. | Read More »

Health care is not a right. The topic came up again last night on Hannity. Hannity had a very interesting Great American Panel last night. Bob Beckel, Redstate’s own Erick Erickson, and singer/Playboy model Aubrey O’Day were the guests. After discussing a program that U.S. tax dollars are funding in Africa that provides sex education to 5-year olds, the talked turned to health care. O’Day | Read More »

Democrats are in an uproar over new revelations that the Bush Administration’s political appointees in the Department of Justice overruled career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division who were in civil litigation against a group of white conservative activists engaged in voter intimidation tactics on Election Day. More troubling, the Department of Justice had obtained a default judgment against the defendants and the political appointees | Read More »

Apparently Fidel Castro doesn’t quite understand that the best thing that he could do for Cuba right now is, well, die: Fidel Castro: Obama ‘misinterpreted’ Raul’s words HAVANA – Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island. | Read More »

Cross posted at www.thepoliticalclass.com Democrats seek DoJ probe into Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. versus I think everyone knows of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He makes prisoners wear pink outfits, live in tents and work for a living. The stories of his actions earned him a page on snopes.com. But now this hard charging sheriff has come under the gun sights of democrats running | Read More »

Union shill Ron Gettelfinger wants you to know that if you don’t support unions you are a racist. That’s right. If you don’t want the undemocratic card check bill to pass Congress you are exactly like the negro hanging, civil rights denying, Jim Crow enforcers of the 1950s. In one of the most disgusting examples of moral equivalence I’ve seen for a long time — | Read More »

Legitimate civil rights victims are in woefully short supply these days. Back in 2006, a cadre of progressive and minority rights agitators descended on the small town of Jena, LA, instantly transforming a group of high school thugs from troubled young perpetrators into Icons of the Civil Rights Movement. Police: ‘Jena Six’ teen shoots self, is treated A teen convicted in the “Jena Six” beating | Read More »

On July 17th I read the two articles quoted and referenced below, and that infuriated me. I can imagine how frustrated some people in the DOJ must be as well. I have been living with a time table that has been withheld from me. I have been waiting, not knowing the ‘when’. But first, allow me to simply quote another article. This from the Democratic | Read More »